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Are you a vegan? If not, then your comment's claim is false. Anyway, the deeper solution is to acknowledge that all life is sacred, and infinities cannot be c
by lupire 4mo ago
Are you a vegan?
If not, then your comment's claim is false.
Anyway, the deeper solution is to acknowledge that all life is sacred, and infinities cannot be compared, and some decisions are impossible to make, and some tragedies cannot be averted, and "prioritization" is a distraction that forces choices when choices are not strictly necessary.
- jvanderbot 4mo agoI'm not. You're right. Some animals are property to be traded and used to support human life. I should separate companion animals and the rest. If you believe sanctity of all life is a solution, then I'm curious what you believe the problem is that such a belief solves. I bet it's circularly defined as justifying the preservation of sacred nonhuman life? I'm not trying to be provocative just curious.
- computably 4mo agoPresumably they meant that they'd sacrifice some material value for some animals, not that every animal on Earth has infinitely more value than inanimate goods. > infinities cannot be compared That's either a mathematically illiterate assumption or a very strange philosophical hill to die on. > some tragedies cannot be averted Sure. The question is what to do about the ones that can be averted. > some decisions are impossible to make > and "prioritization" is a distraction that forces choices when choices are not strictly necessary. Again, the question is what choices to make when you can (arguably must) make them. Saying they're impossible is just refusing to take responsibility. You either do something, or you don't.
- nkrisc 4mo agoWe can choose to draw the lines wherever we want. I firmly draw the line such that AI is never equal to a human.
- solenoid0937 4mo agoJust because you can draw a line doesn't mean your line makes any sense, or follows any semblance of rationality.
- nkrisc 4mo agoThat’s the cool thing, the lines we, as a society, choose to draw need not follow any logical or rational system. This is something those who work a lot with computers tend to forget. The pure rationalist loses something important.